Raju Sharma

Raju Sharma (28 July 1964-) was a member of the German Bundestag from Schleswig-Holstein from 2009 to 2013, serving as a member of the Die Linke party.

Biography
Raju Sharma was born in Hamburg, West Germany on 28 July 1964 to an Indian father and a German mother. He graduated from the University of Hamburg in 1983 and became a lawyer, and he entered the Schleswig-Holstein state service in 1990. He was involved with various cultural offices, and he was also politically-involved; he was a member of the German Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany before finally joining Die Linke. He served in the Bundestag from 2009 to 2013, and he resigned from Die Linke in 2014 after losing re-election.